In re Maney

Citations

• 20 Wash. 509
• 55 P. 930
• 1899 Wash. LEXIS 191

Syllabus

<p>HABEAS CORPUS—EXTRADITION-CONVICTED PRISONERS OF SISTER STATE IN CUSTODY WITHIN THIS STATE.</p> <p>Extradition laws governing the detention and delivery of fugitives from justice have no application to the case of convicted prisoners of another state, who are passing through this state in the custody of an officer of the state in which they were convicted.</p> <p>Habeas corpus for the release of a convicted prisoner under the judgment of a court of a sister state, who is brought within the boundaries of this state by an officer in charge on his way lo the penitentiary of the sister state, will not lie, under § 1 of art. 4 of the constitution of the United States requiring full faith and credit to be given in each state to the judicial proceedings of every other state, when it appears by a duly authenticated record that the judgment of conviction was properly rendered and the prisoner legally sentenced.</p>